This week in the garden… #littlesparta #ianhamiltonfinlay

An apricot/honey perfumed cowslip meadow in Suffolk. Other variously attractive names for these flowers are Fairy Cups, Milk Maidens, Herb Peter, Tisty Tosty ...... Woodland Trust🌳, British Wild Flowers #wildflowers #NatureBeauty

The Spring/Summer term seminar series commences on 25 April. The paper will be Davide Martino's, 'Control or subversion? The contemporary experience of fountains in early modern Tuscan and Dutch gardens'. For further details follow: history.ac.uk/events/control…

We are OPEN for the 2024 season!

Come celebrate our 40th anniversary with us - with new sculpture, installations and beautiful nature at every turn.

Art and nature in harmony 🌱

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CALL FOR STUDENT ESSAYS: The 2024 W. T. Stearn #Student Essay #Prize is open for submissions on topics which contribute significantly to the history of #NaturalHistory , including its social and cultural aspects 🌿🦋🌳🦭 shnh.org.uk/awards-honours…

Giant redwoods - featuring in many a Victorian garden - are apparently doing well in the UK climate: bbc.in/3VigqY0.

Our next seminar will be on 21 March. The paper will be Caroline Goodson's 'Urban Gardening in Early Medieval Italy'. This will be an online seminar only. Further details and to register, please follow: history.ac.uk/events/urban-g…

Circles, cups, feathery lichen lacework and colour on a sunny Sunday morning! #moss #lichen #Blossom

Embrace Triptych: formerly a single carved stone, now a three-part work, almost 4 tonnes of pink Finnish granite. #peterrandallpage #contemporarysculpture #granite #newwork #recentwork #sculpture #stonecarving

Our next seminar will be on 7 March. The paper will be Sara Tenneson's, 'The formal garden making of George Devey (1820 - 1886)'. This will be a hybrid session, in-person and via zoom. Further details and to register follow: history.ac.uk/events/formal-…

'A well-earned break'. Garden labouring was backbreaking, pitifully paid and insecure. A survey of Rutland in 1842 revealed average life expectancy among agricultural and garden labourers was only 38. Professional gardeners fared much better, many living into their 70s or 80s.

A reminder of our seminar on 22 February at 18.00. This will be an online session, via zoom. To register, please visit: history.ac.uk/events/engaged…

.The Bodley Head has signed Ben Dark (@Bensgarden)’s history of the plant kingdom following a five-way auction.

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A reminder of our seminar on 8 February. This will be a hybrid session, both in-person and on zoom. To register, please visit: history.ac.uk/events/verdant…

Our next seminar will be on 8 February The paper will be Emile de Bruijn's, 'Verdant Orientalism: Perspectives on China and Japan in Historic British Gardens and Parks Between the Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries'. history.ac.uk/events/verdant…

Our wildlife is at risk. UK Government has approved the use of a deadly, bee-killing pesticide.

Why, when we owe so much to our pollinators, are they being put in danger?

Find out more and ask British Sugar to help farmers sell neonic-free sugar.👉 wtru.st/back-beet-farm…

Britain’s 45 remaining cooling towers are architectural gems. Let’s save them. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Fire and Water Boats, David Nash (1986), an enigmatic echo of bygone days. One of the inaugural, inspirational sculptures in the Stand and Stare collective Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail #SaturdaySculpture #Landart

Explore #ClimateSolutions and learn how to take action in your workplace or local community on one of our upcoming #ZeroCarbonBritain courses.

See upcoming courses👇
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Breathtaking, vibrant woodland colours still bewitch in the winter months. Oak moss (amongst other lichen) and Golden Jelly Fungus (I believe) further guidance welcome! #FungiFriday #NatureBeauty